64 Val alt swap questions
OK so you put a later squareback on your car. Are you staying with the original 64 style regulator? (69 and earlier)
You are on the right track, as the "squareback" is a better design and will give you better low RPM output. If you keep the "old style" regulator wiring, you want to buy a modern "name brand" replacement, if you do not now have a replacement that is electronic guts instead of the original mechanical. Easy way to tell is look at the bottom of the regulator. Two large resistors means old mechanical. "Nothing much" under there means electronic.
In that case you need to take a meter and make CERTAIN that neither of the two field connections is grounded. If not, pick one and make a ground jumper for it, and hook your original green regulator wire to the remaining one
If you want to use the newer 70/ later regulator, hook it all up as the diagram. You will have to add one more wire, and obtain a connector pigtail for the newer regulator
Your original: ...........You can hook the new one up as original by grounding one field
Converting to the newer regulator: You add one more wire from the second field connection up to the IGN wire of the regulator
Came from here:
http://www.mymopar.com/index.php?pid=78
OK so you put a later squareback on your car. Are you staying with the original 64 style regulator? (69 and earlier)
You are on the right track, as the "squareback" is a better design and will give you better low RPM output. If you keep the "old style" regulator wiring, you want to buy a modern "name brand" replacement, if you do not now have a replacement that is electronic guts instead of the original mechanical. Easy way to tell is look at the bottom of the regulator. Two large resistors means old mechanical. "Nothing much" under there means electronic.
In that case you need to take a meter and make CERTAIN that neither of the two field connections is grounded. If not, pick one and make a ground jumper for it, and hook your original green regulator wire to the remaining one
If you want to use the newer 70/ later regulator, hook it all up as the diagram. You will have to add one more wire, and obtain a connector pigtail for the newer regulator
Your original: ...........You can hook the new one up as original by grounding one field
Converting to the newer regulator: You add one more wire from the second field connection up to the IGN wire of the regulator
Came from here:
http://www.mymopar.com/index.php?pid=78
